Sept 16, 2017 Update: Oshane has been offered a free room, this will lower the overall target further

Update: It looks like there are more cost effective accommodation options, as a result, we've further adjusted our estimates.

Update: We have found some cheaper flights via Google Flights so we're adjusting our estimates down by $2,000.

(David's the one on the right).

This is a manually managed crowdfunding tracker updated by David (no AI was harmed in the creation of this tracker)

We are trying to get from Jamaica to Catalonia for the 2017 Plone conference. Our target is to raise a significant part of the roughly USD$7,000USD$5000USD$4,400USD$3,700 USD$2,900 needed to cover airfare, accommodation etc.

David has been an active part of the community for many years. He delivered training and two talks at the last conference and has been invited to be part of the training team at the 2017 conference as well.

Both of us are really excited to participate this year, however the cost of airfare is prohibitive.

* While Oshane will stay for the sprints, due to family commitments, David won't be able to stay for the sprints.

Rough Breakdown of expenses

7 comments:

I spoke to Victor Fernandez de Alba, one of the conference organizers, he pointed out that the registration fee for a trainer is less than for other participants. I've updated the spreadsheet to reflect this. I also added processing fees to the spreadsheet, so far I'm not seeing any Paypal transactions fees but I will need to account for the cost of moving funds to my Payoneer based debit card.

T.Kim Nguyen suggested that I check Google Flights (https://google.com/flights). As a result I was able to find cheaper routes. Armed with this information we've adjusted our spreadsheets and donation target.

@Jordi,Thanks for the tip. I compared the results of skyscanner to Google flights and for the most part it is comparable. One challenge is also paying attention to visa restrictions. Route vary, via UK, USA, Canada so we have to take this into account as we plan.

We list the amount raised in USD, in the last hour you may have seen a $10 dip (from $1,590 to $1,580) in the total raised. This was because I had to make some adjustments, based on Euro to USD exchange rates. The original amount was based on Google's reported rates, the updated amount is based on what I actually got when converting the Euro I collected to USD in my Paypal account.